Chapters 20-22 Summary

In Chapter 20, Streator and Helen get access to a home where one of the Poems and Rhymes from Around the World was checked out from a library by pretending to be giving free makeovers. The woman of the house is in mourning for the death of her child. As Streator looks for the book and steals the appropriate page, Helen offers some consolation to the woman, including giving her some of her costume jewelry.

In Chapter 21, Helen tells Streator about the death of her son, Patrick, and how she met a woman down lane from her who also lost a child. Helen buys a copy of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World at a yard sale after this other child's death and makes the connection between it and a poem she read to her own son the night before his...